Court Admissions

As a member of the eDiscovery and Legal Tech Services Team, Kenneth Treece assists clients on a wide range of electronic discovery issues from preservation and collection through production.

He assists lead counsel in the development of discovery plans, in the drafting of targeted discovery requests and discovery-related motions. He also works with lead counsel to quickly and efficiently locate "case critical" records for use as exhibits in briefs, at deposition and at trial and analyzes document productions from opposing parties to ensure compliance with their discovery obligations.

He has represented clients in cases involving claims for computer fraud, health care fraud, patent infringement, civil rights violations, antitrust violations, unfair trade practices, labor and employment discrimination, breach of contract, wrongful death and claims against directors and officers. Ken has also been involved in several pre-merger antitrust reviews. He frequently writes and presents on current issues in e-discovery.

Representative Matters

Participated in development of search terms and search strategy for large-scale document review involving over 13 million documents.

Assisted national bank in establishing business case for in-house e-discovery process.

Assisted national bank in role of Interim Discovery Manager by working with General Counsel and Corporate Records Director to develop litigation discovery plans.

Supervised and participated in large-scale document review projects for clients in the banking, pharmaceutical and automotive industries, and for state agencies

Managed document review project in class action litigation for state insurer of last-resort.

Conducted review of documents for responsiveness and privilege in numerous governmental investigations, including pre-merger Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Second Requests under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.

- Developed protocol for issue coding and privilege review of client's electronic data

- Managed document review team and conducted quality control measures on database containing over 100 thousand documents estimated at 2.58 million pages

- Developed template for summarizing documents responsive to particular requests for production and trained review team on completion of summaries; summaries were provided to litigation team for use in depositions and in opposing class certification (class certification ruling still pending) Worked with vendor to troubleshoot database and production issues

- Engagement lasted approximately 2 years.

Honors

University of Arkansas School of Law, with honors; Articles Editor, Arkansas Law Review; President, Moot Court Board